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Date: Monday, 21 September 2026
Time: 08:30 – 17:30, EST
Location: MetLife Building || 200 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10166

Join PRI Investor Day at New York Climate Week for a high-impact convening of global investors.

By bringing together senior representatives from across the responsible investment ecosystem, PRI Investor Day will focus on how institutional investors are approaching the practical, financially relevant drivers of long‑term performance, including ways to translate high‑level commitments into measurable actions across portfolios and the real economy. Participants will gain insights into emerging best practices in stewardship, policy engagement, capital allocation, value creation, and system-level approaches that are shaping responsible investment.

Through dynamic panel discussions and interactive dialogue, the gathering offers a valuable platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and thought leadership at a critical moment for the global financial system.

The PRI will also announce the PRI Awards 2026, recognizing PRI signatories who have demonstrated responsible investment leadership and innovation on climate, investment strategy, human rights, nature, communications and stewardship. 

 

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Event programme

Time

Session Title

08:30-09:00

Arrival and networking breakfast

 

Welcome and opening remarks

 

Fireside Chat - Navigating the US policy landscape: how investors are rooting their decisions in long-term fundamentals

As the US legal and political landscape shifts, this session will focus on the policy changes investors are responding to now - from language choices and reputational risk to shareholder rights, fiduciary framing, disclosure, proxy voting and state-level pressure. The aim is to help signatories understand what is changing in practice, not just in Washington.

 

 

The long view - investor leadership when the playbook is changing

Geopolitical tension, energy system disruption and climate risk are reshaping how investors think about stability, supply, pricing and exposure across sectors and asset classes. This discussion will be grounded in market function, resilience and long-term investment strategy. Leading experts will share how they are adapting their risk lenses, identifying resilience opportunities and staying anchored in the long-term as short-term pressure intensifies.

 

Coffee break 

 

Adaptation and resilience - from physical risk to investable action

 The panel will move beyond general resilience language and focus on where investors can actually deploy capital, how risks are being priced, and what enabling conditions are needed from insurers, issuers, operators and policymakers to make resilience investable at scale.

 

Lunch

 

From code to concrete: how AI data centres are reshaping energy and water systems

This session will examine data centres as a fast-rising investor issue at the intersection of AI growth, power demand, grid capacity, water stress and local resilience. As new facilities drive utility load growth and infrastructure buildout, the discussion will focus on how resource constraints, permitting pressure and community pushback can affect operating risk, credit quality, valuations and long-term investment outcomes. The aim is to help investors understand data centres not as a narrow technology story, but as a real-economy and infrastructure challenge with growing relevance across asset classes. 

 

Coffee break 

 

 

Private markets value creation: what asset owners now want from managers

The session will focus on key insights from PRI’s flagship Sustainability Value Creation Project. What value creation looks like in private markets, with a focus on private debt, when investors are under pressure to show materiality, discipline and attribution to financial outcomes. We will discuss how investors and portfolio companies are using sustainability-related tools and initiatives to create and preserve value through engagement, operational improvement, and more. Bringing together an asset owner, investment manager, and portfolio company, the discussion will examine how LP expectations shape manager approaches on the topic, how lenders support value creation and preservation on the ground, and real-world examples of how this strengthens resilience and long-term value leading to better risk-adjusted financial returns. 


Climate leadership in action: practical examples from the PRI Awards

Join us during New York Climate Week for a practical discussion with leading signatories featured in the PRI Awards 2026. Panellists will share the climate initiatives behind their submissions, what enabled them to act, lessons learned and takeaways for other investors. The session will also recognise this year’s winners and shortlisted organisations.

 

Closing remarks

16:30 – 17:30

Networking reception 

Please note: This agenda is subject to change. 

Venue

MetLife Building || 200 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10166 

Organiser

The PRI | Contact:alexander.marshall@unpri.org

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